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[AtlantaPost.com] HBCUs Diversify the Student Body

Katy Daugherty enrolled at Tennessee State University because of the school’s flexible daytime, evening and online classes and its new urban-studies program. Once on campus at this historically black college, where more than 70% of the students are African-American, Ms. Daugherty, 29, who is white, became the minority.(Read)

[MadameNoire.com] Happy Born Day! Our Favorite Angela Bassett Performances

Mark another birthday in your calendar as one of importance my friends–legendary actress and fellow Leo (LEO’S STAND UP!) Angela Bassett turns 53 on this day. (Read)

[HipHopWired.com] Veteran Black Journalist Gil Noble Stable After Stroke

Legendary African-factologist and conscious-programming TV journalist, Gil Noble, has been hospitalized since surviving a stroke late last month. (Read)

[StyleBlazer.com] Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls Wins Again in a High Fashion editorial for Vogue Paris

This Joan Smalls and Hailey Clause editorial for Vogue Paris September 2011 is like a style dream come true from head to toe! The black and white spread features the two supermodels in slim silhouettes and the best of luxury attire from fur coats to classic pumps. (Read)

[24Wired.tv] Filmmaker documents Sexism, Misogyny in Hip-Hop

Byron Hurt is an award-winning filmmaker, activist and lecturer. But most of all, he is a brother who takes on issues like sexism, misogyny and hyper-masculinity in hip-hop. (Watch)